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215: 3 Lists Every Auctioneer Wants But Nobody Can Buy

Posted on: June 29, 2020 /
Categories: Uncategorized

Over the next two decades, conglomerates and aggregate sites are going to put hundreds of bid callers and even auction marketers out of business. They’re going to pay people to do this data curation work. Instead of trying to buy data, they’re going to mine their own. Those of us who follow their example will most likely be the ones in 2035 who are still advertising auctions at all.

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214: Two Words That Define Your Auction Brand

Posted on: June 2, 2020 /
Categories: Uncategorized

You can catch confident brands and pass complacent companies around you, but you’ll need to accelerate down the uniquely better lane. Thankfully for you and for me, that’s typically a place where there isn’t a lot of traffic.

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213: Your Mailing List is Too Big

Posted on: May 16, 2020 /
Categories: Uncategorized

That doesn’t mean you necessarily throw direct mail out altogether. You just have to be smart about it—efficient at it. Here are several suggestions for making the most out of your mailing list.

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212: Facebook Data That Will Improve Your Direct Mail

Posted on: May 4, 2020 /
Categories: Uncategorized

There’s an interesting assumption in the auction industry that people have shorter attention spans online than they do in print. Don’t believe me? Grab almost any winning direct mail piece in any state or national auctioneer association’s advertising contest. I’d bet you what I’d charge to design it that there’s more text on any one side of it than what Facebook allows visible in a full ad. In many samples of auction direct mail I’ve seen, there’s more text in the terms & conditions on the mailer panel than in a successful Facebook ad.

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210: Why Facebook Blocked HiBid

Posted on: March 30, 2020 /
Categories: Auction Marketing, Marketing Tools

Like with this Coronavirus reality in which we’re living, the person you’ll save with your precautions is probably someone else. For all of my auctioneer friends who’ve been posting about getting the economy going again to save businesses, I’d look at your potential to help the auction industry do just that in the long term.

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209: Facebook Wants Advertisers to Cut to the Chase

Posted on: July 20, 2019 /
Categories: Uncategorized

While this change is inconvenient for almost all of us, it creates another Darwinian opportunity for professional marketers to separate themselves from those unwilling to adapt. Commissions are at stake, if not business models. Whether you outsource your social media or handle it in-house, you’ll be best served by viewing the asset through your buyers’ eyes instead of your own—and then using as few words and characters as possible to sell them.

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